Item Description: 1914. EXCEPTIONAL DELUXE BINDING KIPLING, Rudyard. The Works of Rudyard Kipling. Twenty-seven volumes expanded to fifty-one. 8vo., 237 x 152 mm, bound in full deluxe red morocco, elaborate gilt borders, spines elaborately gilt, silk moire endleaves, turn-ins inlaid with blue morocco, gilt extra with wide dentelles composed of small ornamental tools and large flowers, t.e.g. Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1914-1920. The Seven Seas Edition, one of 1050 sets printed, signed by the author. An extremely fine copy in a full red morocco binding of the absolute highest quality. Leather bound sets of this quality are very rarely seen on the market. The Seven Seas Edition is one of the most respected and sought-after collected works of Kipling ever printed. It includes: Wee Willie Winkie, The Phantom Rickshaw and Other Stories, Captains Courageous, The Jungle Book, The Second Jungle Book, Puck of Pook's Hill, Plain Tales from the Hills, Life's Handicap, The Day's Work, Stalky & Co., Kim, Just So Stories, and much more. Ordinary copies were issued in cloth in twenty-seven volumes. This copy has been exquisitely bound and expanded to fifty-one volumes. PROVENANCE: John Francis Neylan, with his bookplate designed by William H. Wilke and printed by John Henry Nash, the famous California printer. Neylan (1885-1960) was a noted San Francisco lawyer who was chairman of the Board of Regents of the University of California. Additionally he was William Randolph Hearst's chief attorney with close ties to the Hearst newspapers, and thus had enormous political clout and considerable wealth. Stewart, Kipling, pp. 573-574. Bookseller Inventory # 117290

Item Description: 1937. [in original paperboard cases] [In 35 Volumes.] London: Macmillan and Co., 1937-1939. Original full orange-brown Niger leather, in original ochre paperboard slipcases. This is the magnificent Sussex Edition of Kipling's Complete Works -- the most important and the scarcest edition of Kipling's Works. It is the most important for two reasons: because it contains so much new material not previously published in book form (two entire volumes, plus many additional pieces scattered among the other 33 volumes), and because it constitutes the "definitive edition" of all of Kipling's work, completely revised by Kipling during the final years before his 1936 death. It is the scarcest because only 525 sets (500 for sale) were created in the first place, and because "a substantial portion of this edition was destroyed in unbound sheets during the bombing of London in 1941" [Stewart]; it is quite likely that no more than 150 or 200 sets survive today, and many of those are in institutional collections.~The Sussex Edition was produced "on a lavish scale in order to provide a worthy monument to the genius of a great writer" [from the Prospectus]. The text was printed on handmade paper, with the first sheet of each signature bearing Kipling's ganesha watermark; those copies that survived the Blitz had earlier been bound in full "real Native Tanned Niger leather," natural orange-brown in color, with double gold frame rules on each cover, with lettering and rules in gold on the spines, and with gilded top edges of the leaves. The endpapers are hand-brushed marbled paper, surrounded by gold and blind fillets. In each set Volume I bears Kipling's signature, done on sheets for Macmillan before he died. The volumes were produced two per month, starting in mid-1937, but were sold only in sets at the price of two pounds ten shillings per volume.~This is set #221 and is in remarkably fine, bright condition -- virtually flawless other than a few trivial rubs. Some sets, over the years, have become much darker in color due to improper application of oil to the natural Niger leather bindings; however this set remains bright orange-brown, as it was issued. Furthermore, this set is still in the 35 original ochre-colored paperboard slipcases in which the volumes were issued; it is apparent that these slipcases, delicate and unprinted, were not intended still to be around seventy-five years later (the cases do have occasional minor edge-wear and damp-marking). Finally, loosely inserted into Vol I is the eight-page Prospectus for the Sussex Edition, issued while the volumes were being produced; it is folded and has some edge-wear. In all, one could not hope to acquire a more complete set or a finer set of the most important edition of the Works of Rudyard Kipling. Bookseller Inventory # 12635

Item Description: Doubleday: Doran and Company, Inc., 1941., 1941. The Burwash Edition. SIGNED LIMITED EDITION to 1010 sets of which this No 28, featuring the author's final revisions, published posthumously. (the equivalent English set was the Sussex Edition). Large 8vo. 28 volumes. A very fine set in its original publisher's dark red cloth with gilt to spines and gilt motif to uppers, top edges gilt; dark red end papers with author's monograms; in their unmarked original cream dust wrappers, titled and decorated in dark red to spines and uppers. A superb set, uncommon with dustwrapper, rare in such fine condition. Bookseller Inventory # 24653

Item Description: London: Macmillan, 1913. Limited edition of 1050 sets. Published 1913 - 1919. Volume 1 signed by the author on half-title. 25 volumes large 8vo (9 3/4 x 6 3/4 inches). Contemporary three-quarter crushed green morocco, spines with 5 raised bands, lettered direct in gilt to two compartments, ornamentally blocked in gilt to 4 compartments, green cloth sides,top edges gilt others uncut. The bindings by Dulau & Co. Spines uniformly, and most attractively, sunned to olive. Narrow paint (?) mark to lower cover of 2 volumes. A beautiful set finely and strongly bound and very clean internally. This set was complete when issued, however as Kiping continued to write, a further 6 volumes were issued over the following 19 years. Volumes 1-6 shown; all the volumes are in the same condition. Bookseller Inventory # 13406

Item Description: Macmillan., 1938. Hardcover. Book Condition: Near Fine. 31 volumes-all published - the first volume being signed by Kipling. All volumes are uniformly bound in blue-grey boards with linen backstrip, printed label, top edge gilt, on hand-made paper with watermark bearing "R K". The first 20 volumes were limited to 1000 copies but as Kipling continued to write the set grew to 31 volumes . These last 11 volumes were limited to 500 copies. An extremely good set of a limited edition that rarely appears complete. Bookseller Inventory # 104617

Item Description: Doubleday Doran & Co. Inc., (New York), 1941. Hardcover. Book Condition: Near Fine. TWENTY EIGHT VOLUMES, complete set. LIMITED EDITION OF 1010 SETS. THIS IS No. 724. SIGNED BY RUDYARD KIPLING ON THE COLOPHON PAGE IN VOL. I. Near Fine set in the original publisher's dark red cloth, with gilt decoration front covers, gilt lettering, rules and decorations spines. Top edges gilt. Owner bookplates ffeps. In the Original printed Dust Jackets (except djs for Vols. I and XXVIII which are fine facsimiles, replacement 2" dj spine crown Vol. XI--all other djs Original). Dust Jackets are Very Good to Near Fine with sun spines, mild edge wear, occasional small pieces missing. Subsequent to this printing the type was distributed so no further copies of this Definitive American Edition have been printed. This edition is textually identical to the English "Sussex Edition". 8vo. A Scarce Signed edition in Dust Jackets. Bookseller Inventory # 48629

Item Description: Macmillan and Co., Limited. London, 1913. Hardcover. Book Condition: Very Good. 25 volume set, bound in full leather. Signed by Rudyard Kipling. This is the Bombay Edition of Kipling's works, signed on the half title page by Rudyard Kipling. A very hardsome set. Full purple leather, faded to brown on the spines, with elaborate gold decorations. Raised cords, top edge gilt. The book measure 6.76 x 9.5 inches. The full set sits on just over 3 feet of shelf space. A limited edition of 1050 copies. Volume 1 is numbered on the limitation page with a 3 in pencil, but other volumes have other numbers and some are not numbered at all. 1 volume is missing half of the maroon label on the spine with the authors name. 1 volume has a chip that has been repaired at the crown of the spine. The rest are in quite good condition, attractive and tightly bound. The volumes are not numbered on the spines, but they are numbered inside. They are: 1) Plain Tales from the Hills; 2) Soldiers Three; 3) Wee Willie Winkie; 4) From Sea to Sea vol 1; 5) From Sea to Sea, vol 2; 6) Life's Handicap; 7) The Light that Failed; 8) The Naulahka; 9) Many Inventions; 10) Captains Courageous; 11) The Jungle Book; 12) The Second Jungle Book; 13) The Day's Work; 14) Stalky and Company; 15) Kim; 16) Just So Stories; 17) Traffics and Discoveries; 18) Puck of Pook's Hill; 19) Rewards and Fairies; 20) Actions and Reactions; 21) Departmental Ditties; 22) Five Nations; 23) Songs from Books; 24) A Diversity of Creatures; 25) The Years Between. Please email with questions or to request photos. It's a nice one. Signed by Author(s). Bookseller Inventory # Fred-Sets49

Item Description: Macmillan, 1913. Hardback. Book Condition: Fine. 1st thus. ~Uniformly bound in half navy blue morocco, blue cloth to boards, raised bands, gilt decoration to spine and boards. Marbled endpapers. Headbands. Top edges gilt, others untrimmed. A little rubbing to some raised bands. Printed on thick handmade paper, watermarked with 'RK'. The first volume is signed. Kipling was born in Bombay in 1865 and died in 1936. After his death the Bombay edition was extended by 5 volumes using writings published after 1927. Hinges all sound. No ownership marks. A highly attractive lifetime set containing all Kipling's major works. The collophon in all volumes reads: 'The Bombay Edition. consists of 1050 copies, printed by R. & R. Clark from the Florence Press Type, designed by Herbert P. Horne.' (The pictures are of the first 3 volumes only; the others match exactly.) Size: About 300pp. per vol. Small 4to (25 x 17 cm). Signed by Author. Binding tight, text unmarked. Bookseller Inventory # PP0689

Item Description: 15 - London -Macmillan & Co Ltd., 1913. Hardcover. Book Condition: Very Good. A limited and signed collection of works from prolific author, novelist and poet, Rudyard Kipling. Volume one is neatly signed in ink by Rudyard Kipling. Limited edition set, with only 1050 originally being published. Vol. I Plain Tales From the Hills. Vol. II Soldiers Three: The Story of the Gadsbys: In Black and White. Vol. III Wee Willie Winkie. Under the Deodars. The Phantom 'Rickshaw and other stories. VolIVandV From Sea to Sea and other sketches. Letters of Travel. 2 vol. Vol. VILife's Handicap, etc. Vol. VII The Light that Failed. Vol. VIII The Naulahka . . . By R. Kipling and Wolcott Balestier. Vol. IX Many Inventions. Vol. X 'Captains Courageous,' etc. Vol. XI The Jungle Book. Vol. XIII The Day's Work. Vol. XIV Stalky & Co. Vol. XV Kim. Vol. XVI Just So Stories, etc. Vol. XVII Traffics and Discoveries. Vol. XVIII Puck of Pook's Hill, etc. Vol. XIXRewards and Fairies. Vol. XX Actions and Reactions. Vol. XXI Departmental Ditties. Barrack-Room Ballads and other verses. Vol. XXII The Five Nations. The Seven Seas. Vol. XXIII Songs from Books. Volumes one to eleven complete, and volumes thirteen to twenty-three complete. Kipling was one of the most popular writers in England, in both prose and verse, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Henry James said: Kipling strikes me personally as the most complete man of genius (as distinct from fine intelligence) that I have ever known. In 1907 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, making him the first English-language writer to receive the prize, and to date he remains its youngest recipient. Among other honours, he was sounded out for the British Poet Laureateship and on several occasions for a knighthood, all of which he declined. The Bombay edition was initially published in 20 volumes and limited to 1000 copies. Kipling continued to write and it eventually grew to 31 volumes, but the last 11 volumes were limited to 500 copies only. This collection is twenty-two volumes of the original twenty five limited to 1050. With water marks to the endpapers. Condition: In original publishers' half cloth bindings with paper covered boards. Externally, all volumes are generally sound, with only some light rubbing and scattered marks. Spine label is slightly lifting to volume one and thirteen. Warping to the boards of volume sixteen, and light damp staining to the tail of volume twenty-two's spine. Very light straining to the front hinge of volume one, three, four, seven,ten, and eleven. As well as straining to the rearhinge of volume four, seven, ten, and eleven. Front hinge to volume thirteen is tender. Internally, all volumes are generally firmly bound and bright. Somefoxing to the endpapers and textblock edge. Many leaves are uncut. Overall: VERY GOOD. Bookseller Inventory # 035223

Item Description: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1914. Hardcover. Book Condition: Very Good. The Seven Seas edition. (1914-1926) One of 1050 sets (this being #885) 27 volumes - the first volume of each set was signed by Kipling. The set was issued by Doubleday, as the American version of the Bombay set. Bound in dark green calf half morocco and cloth. Raised bands, gilt decoration in the compartments, top edge gilt by MacDonald. This set was originally bound in "grey boards with canvas backstrip, white paper labels affixed to the spine.". They were all rebound. The last four volumes were published one at a time, therefore were bound individually. The morocco is the same, but the cloth varies slightly. The first 23 volumes are uniformly faded brown (as is common with green leather), while the last 4 are faded less - with virually no fading on the final volume. There is some light rubbing, but this is a fine, attractive set, Bookseller Inventory # 000029

Item Description: New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1920-1937., 1920. The Outward Bound Edition. 32 volumes; 8vo. Publisher's brown cloth with gilt titles and gilt to spines, gilt ivory medalion to upper, top edges gilt others untrimmed. With maps and illustrations, as well as portraits of the author. Last 3 volumes in lighter brown. Binding with occasional marking or rubbing; browning to eps and untrimmed edges. Dampstaining to one vol. Several volumes unread with pages uncut; the last volume, Something of Myself with Index, has the first couple of pages roughly cut. A generally clean and tight set of Kipling's complete poems and novels in original cloth. Stewart p.560. Bookseller Inventory # 39074

Item Description: Charles Scribner's Sons 1897-1937, New York, 1897. The Complete Edition of Rudyard Kipling's works. Octavo, 36 volumes. Original publisher's brown cloth with gilt titles and tooling to the spine, gilt ruled to the front panel. From the library of Martha Catherine Codman with her bookplate to twenty volumes. Codman was a socialite of Newport society and sister of famed architect Ogden Codman. In very good condition. Bookseller Inventory # 4066

Item Description: London, Macmillan, 1982., 1982. Illusts. with the original drawings. All volumes 8vo. or.red cl., gilt lettering. OCTAVO SIZE. HARDCOVER. Centenary Edition and first editions thus. TWENTY-THREE BOOKS IN TOTAL, complete. All books in dust jackets. All books in very good plus condition - and a very nice set of these classic writings by Rudyard Kipling in a nice matching uniform edition. #AAA1. The Collected Works of Rudyard Kipling, complete in twenty-three volumes, comprising the following titles: . ***** Actions and Reactions. Captains Courageous. The Day's Work. Debits and Credits. A Diversity of Creatures. The Jungle Book. Just So Stories. Kim. Life's Handicap. The Light That Failed. Limits and Renewals. Many Inventions. The Naulahka. Plain Tales from the Hills. Puck of Pooks Hill. Rewards and Fairies. The Second Jungle Book. Soldiers Three. Something of Myself. Stalky & Co. Thy Servant a Dog. Traffics and Discoveries. Wee Willie Winkie. . *****. Bookseller Inventory # b2899c4ee8c53a92add05422281b6ac4

Item Description: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1927. Hardcover. Book Condition: Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Thirteen volume set of the works of Kipling BOUND IN 3/4 BROWN MOROCCO OVER RED CLOTH BOARDS BY CHARLES E. LAURIAT CO. BOSTON. Top edge gilt, rest untrimmed. Each volume contains two separately paginated books, volume 4 is the only one with the title page dated 1925. Bindings generally near fine though not all, a few have some signs of hinges starting to crack, and spine drying so I will call them VERY GOOD. An attractive set overall. Extra shipping will apply. Bookseller Inventory # 001202

Item Description: London, Macmillan, 1982., 1982. Illusts. with the original drawings. All volumes 8vo. or.red cl., gilt lettering. OCTAVO SIZE. HARDCOVER. Centenary Edition and first editions thus. TWENTY-TWO BOOKS IN TOTAL, complete. All books in dust jackets. All books in very good condition bar some marking to the outside page edges of nine books and little rubbing to small part of dust jacket spine area on all dust jackets, overall still a very good set of these classic writings by Rudyard Kipling. #AAA1. The Collected Works of Rudyard Kipling, complete in twenty-two volumes, comprising the following titles: . ***** Actions and Reactions. Captains Courageous. The Day's Work. Debits and Credits. A Diversity of Creatures. The Jungle Book. Just So Stories. Kim. Life's Handicap. The Light That Failed. Limits and Renewals. Many Inventions. The Naulahka. Plain Tales from the Hills. Puck of Pooks Hill. Rewards and Fairies. The Second Jungle Book. Soldiers Three. Something of Myself. Stalky & Co. Thy Servant a Dog. Wee Willie Winkie. . ******. Bookseller Inventory # 5e6263a9075c569a4fea3c5108292a8c